The Michael and Magdealena Bixler Farmstead, also known as the John Rudy County Park, is an historic, American property that is located in

East Manchester Township, Pennsylvania East Manchester Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 8,327. History Michael and Magdealena Bixler Farmstead, also known as John Rudy County Park, was listed o ...

York County, Pennsylvania York County ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Yarrick Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster ...

. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2000.

History and architectural features

This historic property includes seven stone and frame buildings that date from roughly 1799 to 1910. They are a

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-style house, a Sweitzer barn (1811), a summer kitchen, a corn barn, a hog barn, a tobacco barn, and a milk house. The house, which was built circa 1799, is a two-and-one-half-story, stone dwelling that sits on a

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

foundation. It has a

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...

covered gable roof. Also located on the property is a hand-dug well that dates to 1799 or earlier, the foundations of a house that date to roughly 1737, and a

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

. The property was donated to York County in 1973, and is operated as a county park. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

in 2000.

References

External links

John Rudy County Park website
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1799 Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania Houses in York County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania